Hi JimboZA,
Thanks for correcting my spelling of Robin2.
With respect to the rest of your challenge, I'm not yet up to the stage of writing code, just beginning to get the gist of sketches via tutorials.
I have on order an Easy Driver board, hasn't arrived as yet. Have found a tutorial where speed and direction of a stepper motor is addressed plus wiring diagram. Have the Arduino uno R3 board and have been having a play.
Amazing piece of hardware.
Ken